Political Science Educator

Message from the Section President (Winter/Spring 2025)

February 20, 2025
Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 2

Dear Colleagues,

A belated happy New Year to all, and it was wonderful to see so many of you recently at the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference in Alexandria, VA.

A huge thank

A Conversation Between Student and Teacher On Learning to Love the Literature Review as Scaffolding

February 20, 2025
Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 2

By Cecilia McNair (cmcnair001@csbsju.edu) and Christi Siver (csiver@csbsju.edu)

SIVER: While my scholarly interests are primarily at the intersection of international security and human rights[1], as a professor …

Message from the Section President (Summer/Fall 2024)

June 7, 2024

Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1


As another spring semester comes to close, I want to reflect on our accomplishments and our future as a section.

Work on updating the mission statement for the section is ongoing.

I am …

Announcements (Summer/Fall 2024)

June 7, 2024

Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1

Member Announcements

Lauren Bell, Allison Rank, and Carah Ong Whaley will publish an edited volume in July 2024, Civic Pedagogies: Teaching Civic Engagement in an era of Divisive Politics with Palgrave Macmillan. Several …

Political Science Exams in the Age of AI

June 7, 2024
Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1

Reflections


By Erik Ringmar (erik@ringmar.net)

When ChatGPT-3.5 was released on the world in the fall of 2022, there was a collective sense of amazement. This was not a ghost in a …

Considering Edtech in Political Science Teaching: Data Literacy, Privacy Rights, and the Role of Government in Regulation

June 7, 2024
Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1

Reflections


By Janet L. Donavan (janet.donavan@colorado.edu)

 As a political scientist who regularly teaches Introduction to American Politics and Media and Politics, helping students develop information literacy is a key learning goal …

Can Chat GPT and Crowdsourced Forecasting Help Students Think About International Relations? A New Class Assignment

June 7, 2024
Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1

Reflections


By Justin Robertson (justin.robertson@cityu.edu.hk)

The arrival of ChatGPT has sparked existential questions about the future of the humanities and social sciences and has been accompanied in its wake by a …

Using Reading Groups to Encourage Deeper and Broader Reading

June 7, 2024
Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1

Reflections


By Colin M. Brown (colin.brown@northeastern.edu)

I came out of an undergraduate and graduate tradition of assigning massive reading lists on each course syllabus. While I often did not read everything …

Using Non-Content-Related Quiz Questions to Build Rapport

June 7, 2024
Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1

Reflections


By Rebecca A. Glazier (raglazier@ualr.edu)

Preparing a new class can be a great way to think about pedagogy with a clean slate. But it can also be a lot of …

It’s a Trap! Teaching Bureaucratic Politics with a Star Wars Simulation

June 7, 2024
Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1

Reflections


By Jen Spindel (Jennifer.Spindel@unh.edu)

Announcing that you are going to spend a semester studying bureaucracy is a great way to kill the beginning-of-semester enthusiasm for a new course. Bureaucracy?! So …

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